Theater of the Mind
Harry Von Zell
Cast, Announcer
225 episodes in 16 shows · 1932–1956
Harry Von Zell was a busy network announcer who at one point handled some 20 shows a week, and as a CBS staff announcer he worked with stars like Fred Allen and Ed Wynn. From 1940 to 1949 he was Eddie Cantor's commercial spokesman and straight man, the longest radio partnership of his career. Television viewers later knew him as the announcer and befuddled family friend on Burns and Allen.
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The Eddie Cantor Show87 · Cast, Announcer
1940
1941
- Guest: Phil Harris
- Guest: Jinx Falkenburg
- Guest: Joe DiMaggio
- Guest: Dr. M. Sayle Taylor
- Guest: John Barrymore
- Guests: Humphrey Bogart, Hattie McDaniel
- Guest: Sidney Toler
- Guest: Oscar Levant
- Guest: Tallulah Bankhead (1941)
- Guests: Ezra Stone, Adelaide Moffat
- Guest: John Garfield
- Guest: Bob Feller
- Eddie's Life Story
- Guest: Victor Mature
- Guest: Boris Karloff
1942
- Guest: Gracie Allen
- Guests: Hattie McDaniel, Ida Lupino
- Guest: Rudy Vallee
- Guest: Jack Benny (1942)
- Guest: Ida Lupino (1942)
1943
- Guests: George Raft, George W. Holley
- Guests: Rudy Vallee, Jimmy McHugh, Betty Hutton
- Guest: Adolphe Menjou
- Guest: Kay Francis
- Guest: Edward G. Robinson
- Guest: Fred Astaire
- Guest: Rochester
- Guest: George Burns
- Guest: Vera Vague
- Guest: Ida Lupino (1943)
- Guest: Betty Hutton
1944
- Guest: Ginny Simms
- Guest: Bonita Granville
- Guest: Tallulah Bankhead (1944)
- Guest: William Gargan
- Guest: Morton Downey
- Guest: Maurice Rocco
- Guest: Jackie Coogan
- Guest: Alan Reed
- Guest: Joan Davis
- Guests: June Allyson, Gloria deHaven
- Guest: Martha Raye
- Guest: Esther Williams
- Harry's New Baby
- Elections
- New Apartment
- Guest: Alan Ladd
- Guest: Don Wilson
- Eddie Finds Harry
- Christmas Show
- New Year's Show
1945
- Guests: The Andrews Sisters
- Eddie Is Jealous
- Ida Wants a Divorce
- Guests: George Burns and Gracie Allen
- Kidnapping
- Guest: Hoagy Carmichael
- Guest: Ella Logan
- Army Intelligence
- Beautiful Baby
- On Trial
- Adoption
- Golf
- Guest: Charles Boyer
- Twenty Years in Radio
- Introducing Fred Martell
- The Fur Coat
- The FBI Agent
- Camp Pendleton
- A Visit from Rochester
1946
1947
- Guest: Jack Benny (January 1947)
- How Eddie and Al Jolson Got Started
- Eddie Interviews a Prospective Son-In-Law
- Eddie Gets a Threatening Letter
- Guest: Audie Murphy
- Guest: Jack Benny (November 1947)
- Thanksgiving Program
- Guest: Cici Blake
1948
- Going After the Smith Vote
- Guest: Lauritz Melchior
- A Revue Called Inside Hollywood
- Eddie Goes to UCLA
- Eddie's 18th Anniversary
1949
The Fred Allen Show59 · Cast, Announcer
1935
- The Wild Women of the Wilderness
- Whoopee on the Volga
- The Case of the Disappearing Elephant
- The Department Store Santa
1936
- Murder at the Microphone
- Mumbo
- Lord Falconbeak's Dilemma
- Going, Going, Gone
- The Fatal Shot
- Murder Backstage
- Colonel Culpepper's Plight
- The Studio's Dilemma
- Hortense's Dilemma
- Sandy's Crime
- The Lost Vice President
- The Slogan
- The Comedian's Plight
- Trombone Annie
- Murder in the Chop House
- Welcome Stranger
- Stoopnagle and Budd
- Will She Come Out?
- Murder at Cupcake County
- The Great Dane Mystery
- The Egg Baron
- The Prodigal Daughter's Return
- The Community Sing
- The First Department Store Santa
1937
- Murder on the High Seas
- St. Patrick's Day
- The Coronation
- The Tycoon's Dilemma
- The Great Swimming Pool Mystery
1938
- High, Wide and Homely
- The Hotel Mystery
- The True Story of Your Hero
- Who Killed the Hula-Hula Dancer?
- The Studio's Predicament
- Mountain Malfeasance
- The Bank's Dilemma
1939
1940
- The Political Amateur Hour
- The Visibility Was Poor, but the Pilot Could See His Finish
- The Missing Cat
- The Eagle Show
- The Laziest Man in the World
- The Crisis in the Central Park Zoo
- From Nipper to Nobody
- He Caught His Wife Kissing a Stranger
- Information Tease
- The Barber College
- The Curse of Ra
- Death Takes a Pretzel Baron
- The Senator's Dilemma
- The Million Dollar Smile
- Us, the People Speak
The Life of Riley15 · Announcer
- Peg's Father Comes to Visit
- The Anniversary Tiff
- Riley's Housekeeping System
- Tillie Boomer
- Babs Is Blackballed (1951)
- Charleston Lessons with Louella
- Riley's Case of Nerves
- Riley Has Tonsillitis
- Louella Stays with the Rileys
- Riley Installs a Time Clock
- The Basketball Bribe
- Riley, the Rent Collector
- The Civil Service Exam
- A Kiss in the Dark
- Babs Moves Out
Bright Star14 · Announcer
The Aldrich Family11 · Announcer
Command Performance9 · Cast, Announcer
- Program 1: Eddie Cantor
- Program 4: Fred Allen, Kenny Baker
- Mickey Rooney
- Program 66: Martha Raye, Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Grier
- Program 67: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Judy Canova, Virginia O'Brien
- Program 94: Herbert Marshall, Bergen and McCarthy
- Program 131: Barbara Stanwyck, Dick Haymes
- Program 162: Dick Tracy in B Flat
- Program 281: Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, The Mad Russian, Imogene Carpenter
The Screen Guild Theater7 · Cast, Announcer
Mail Call6 · Announcer
- Program 72: Jack Benny, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Delta Rhythm Boys
- Program 126: Ann Rutherford, Johnny Mercer, Garry Moore
- Program 127: Groucho Marx, Ida Lupino, Gloria DeHaven
- Program 128: Bing Crosby, Cass Daley, Martha Mears
- Marion Hutton, Edgar Bergen, Ingrid Bergman
- Program 134: Dick Haymes, King Sisters, Jimmy Durante
The Joan Davis Show4 · Cast
Fibber McGee and Molly3 · Cast, Announcer
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show2 · Cast, Announcer
The Jack Benny Program2 · Cast, Announcer
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